maternity ward

1. 1.

   a hospital ward that provides care for women during pregnancy and childbirth and for newborn infants

   Broaderward

Questions about maternity ward

What does maternity ward mean?

maternity ward means "a hospital ward that provides care for women during pregnancy and childbirth and for newborn infants".

Is maternity ward a common word?

maternity ward is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.